Mrs Percy Burrell
(1829-1880)
29 July 1861

olume 4, page 290, sitting number 5229.

Identified in the Silvy daybooks as 'Mrs Percy Burrell,' this is almost certainly Mrs Henrietta Burrell, wife of Percy Burrell of Woodgates, Shipley, Sussex. The couple appear on the 1861 census, at which time Mr Burrell, who was 49 years old, gave his profession as a Justice of the Peace and a Captain in the 18th Sussex Reserve Volunteers. Mrs Burrell gave her age as 32 and her birthplace as Goring in Sussex. She had nine servants to help her run the house.

In 1862, Burrell succeeded his father as baronet. He entered the House of Commons in the same year, sitting for New Shoreham, the constituency his father had also represented, until his death in 1876.

Lady Burrell's death was announced in the Times on 10 March 1880: 'Intelligence has been received of the death of Henrietta Katherine, Lady Burrell, widow of the late Sir Percy Burrell, M.P., which occured at Hyères on the 4th inst. The deceased lady was the eldest daughter and co-heir of the late Vice-Admiral Sir George R. Brooke Pechell. She married Sir Percy Burrell in 1856, and was left a widow four years ago.'

[From an album compiled by Rose Isabella Susan Preston (born 1842), later the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ethelred Shuttleworth.]